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Topic Lesson 6: //**Interrupted Journey**//

Common Core Standards RI5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RI5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. W5.2a-e Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will identify cause and effect relationships in a text. 2. Students will use text details to infer cause and effect relationships. 3. Students will write a cause and effect paragraph.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts Poetry
 * __ Gorilla Doctors:Saving Endangered Great Apes, __ by Pamela S. Turner
 * __ Sea Turtles, __ by James R. Spotila
 * __ Sea Turtles, __ by Mary Jo Rhodes and David Hall
 * "Undersea," by Marchette Chute

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Activities
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 163. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "Rescue!" or "Cold or Warm."

Assessments 1. Practice Book, page 61-62 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T55 and R18 3. Weekly Test 6.5-6.6

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